Demeter has launched Nutmeg Ice Cream, the latest addition to their Fragrance Library.
Soothe your heart and soul with the warm, fragrant scent of Demeter's Nutmeg Ice Cream. Enveloped in fresh cream and garnished with a touch of sugar, that’s just enough to remove any bitterness, but not enough to make the fragrance sweet. Fragrant Nutmeg is the star here, but balanced to be wearable.
At Demeter, we follow interesting experiments in food, because taste and smell are so intertwined. One successful area of food experimentation concerns savory and spicy ice creams. This is our olfactory version of this trend.
So while this approach might be modern, the spice is not. Nutmeg has been prized for its medicinal properties, and as a spice since at least the first century. Nutmeg is native to the Banda islands of Indonesia, and was brought to Europe in the middle ages by the Arabs through the Venetians.
Demeter Nutmeg Ice Cream is available in 15, 30 or 120 ml Cologne ($6 – $39.50) and in matching bath & body products.
(via demeterfragrance)
If they come up with a pistachio ice cream, I’m all over it. 🙂
Ask and ye shall receive
https://nstperfume.com/2014/07/14/demeter-pistachio-ice-cream-new-fragrance/
Some of the Duane Reade / Walgreens in NYC sell Demeters. The Pistachio Ice Cream is fantastic.
I had nutmeg ice cream in Grenada, the nutmeg island. It became one of my all time favorites! Now I make it at home but this Demeter sounds perfect for a little walk down memory lane. Besides nutmeg, other local flavors were guava, peanut and passionfruit. I fell in love with nutmeg.
Forgot to add, you MUST use fresh grated nutmeg, not the stuff you buy in the little jar at the grocery store. Fresh grated has a unique taste and smell and really adds to the flavor of the ice cream.
I’ve never made it but Ann Hodgman’s nutmeg ice cream recipe requires you to steep some whole nutmegs in the cream and then add more grated nutmeg to the custard before freezing. (You throw out the steeped ones: they’re too soft to grate at that point.) I’ve never made it but her recipes are generally terrific so I bet this one is, too.
I have a nutmeg ice cream recipe I have not gotten around to yet, but I will! Love cardamom in ice cream though.
My favorite ice cream shop in Montreal makes a delicious orange cardamom one. Their chai masala one is great too!
Sniffapalooza and Demeter are collaborating on a fragrance blending class this coming Saturday. Some of us in the NYC area have already signed up! I have done a little bit of “homework” and will likely be utilizing Sunshine and New Zealand. Other contenders include Wet Garden, Clean Skin and/or one of the Tea scents. If Nutmeg is available, that may spice things up! I already have Tomato Leaf and Pumpkin Pie.
Oh fun! I know they’ve been really promoting their blending kits lately.
Way way back, when Anita Roddick still owned The Body Shop, I bought a fragrance blending kit but never made use of it because one smear of the strawberry oil caused me to break out in hives (I apparently needed something that was tested on animals). Then came Jo Malone and fragrance combining (eek, do I need to put a trademark symbol somewhere here?) but somehow, I’ve never really layered them. Recently, I bought a Fred Segal Custom Fragrance Blending Kit and gave it to a dear perfumista’s daughter.
Although I am not shy about layering just based on gut, I’m hoping the class will give me a little bit of fragrance combining smarts from the professionals! I am looking forward to it. And the 20% off any purchase that day doesn’t hurt 🙂
I just realized this is the Nutmeg ICE CREAM! Nutmeg is already available and I was not too crazy about it.
Ah, good to know.
Hope New Zealand doesn’t smell like a mince pie with tomato sauce and a bottle of beer…or sheep. Would love to know what it does smell like.
LOL! It’s earthy green and “salty air crisp”.